Adrian Maurice Daintrey

Adrian Daintrey, RWA (1902–1988) was a British portrait and landscape painter.

Life

Adrian Daintrey was born in Balham, London on 23 June 1902,[1] the youngest of three children of Ernest Daintrey, a solicitor[2] and his wife Lucy Mary (née Blagdon).[3] FHe was educated at Charterhouse School, where he developed his artistic skills,[3] at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1920 to 1924,[4] and then at the École du Louvre and L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. He gathered a wide circle of friends including the artists Augustus John, Nina Hamnett and Rex Whistler.

He shared his first exhibition with Paul Nash at Dorothy Warren's Gallery in 1928. During World War II, he served widely abroad. After the war he held shows at his studio to promote his work. He worked for Punch magazine as an art critic from 1953 to 1961. From the late 1960s he taught part-time at the City and Guilds of London Art School. He died in Islington in 1988, having resided at the Charterhouse almshouse as a Brother from 1984-1988.[5]

Exhibitions

  • South London Art Gallery
  • Michael Parkin Fine Art
  • Sally Hunter Fine Art

Collections

Legacy

Hilary Spurling records that the central character in Anthony Powell's 1933 novel From a View to a Death is "a pushy young painter, an irrepressible opportunist of colossal nerve and cheek called Arthur Zouch, easily recognizable to friends as Adrian Daintrey." The character is invited to the Passengers' country house to paint family portraits, and in return he seduces the young women of the house until the father, furious, sends him out to hunt on a dangerous horse, and Zouch falls, breaking his neck.[9]

References

  1. ↑ The International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 1976, Ernest Kay, pg 138
  2. ↑ Who's Who In Art 1974, Bernard Dolman, pg 111
  3. 1 2 "Daintrey, Adrian Maurice". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64240.
  4. ↑ Dolman, Bernard (1980). Who's who in Art. Art Trade Press.
  5. ↑ London: A History in Paintings and Illustrations, Stephen Porter, 2014, pg 171
  6. ↑ "Drawing". British Museum. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Adrian Daintrey". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Adrian Maurice Daintrey". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Spurling, Hilary (2017). Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time. Penguin Books. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-241-25655-8.
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